Sentences with phrase «of wholesale electricity»

-LSB-...] by granting DEI and maintaining in its favour quasi-monopolistic lignite exploration rights which ensure that it has privileged access to the most attractive fuel in Greece for the purposes of generating electricity, the Hellenic Republic thereby created inequality of opportunity between economic operators on the wholesale electricity market and thus distorted competition, maintaining or reinforcing DEI's dominant position and excluding or hindering any new entrants, despite the liberalisation of the wholesale electricity market.
Finland is part of the Nordic electricity market, where the price of wholesale electricity is nearly the same in all participating countries.
IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.
Through a subsidiary, VEA wants to be a provider of wholesale electricity for commercial customers.
It's time to end the fiasco of wholesale electricity markets, that rely on auctions to determine which source of electricity to use on the grid.
The plan would have provided stable financing to expand much needed natural gas pipeline capacity to the region, and would have driven down the cost of wholesale electricity.
Hence the CPP either forces a radical (and as - yet undeveloped) restructuring of wholesale electricity markets, or it provides a back door for a carbon tax — a politically toxic policy that IER has consistently shown to be all pain, no gain, and a legislative non-starter for good reason.
EnerNOC's largest market is the PJM Interconnection, which coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity among 13 Eastern and Midwestern states.
In a recent auction of wholesale electricity opened to industrial consumers and other large users, bidders ponied up more than $ 150 a megawatt - hour in an attempt to lock in their electricity supply for the new year.
In other words, cheap natural gas is lowering the price of wholesale electricity, which is cutting into the revenues of all power plant operators.

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Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.
This contract, BART's first - ever PPA for utility - scale solar power, resulted from a renewable energy procurement process that BART launched in May 2017 as part of the organization's Wholesale Electricity Portfolio Policy («Policy»).
At one point, the wholesale cost of electricity went into the negative at mid-day — the point on the 24 - hour clock where prices are supposed to be higher.
This could impact an under - the - radar area of trade between the U.S. and Canada — wholesale electricity.
«This also shows that wholesale costs were the main driver of price rises; however the range of policy - related costs pressures is estimated to have been responsible for 7 % of the gas price rise and 28 % of the electricity price rise during this period.»
Energy Future Holdings Corp. manages a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries consisting of TXU Energy, a competitive electricity retailer, Luminant, a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and construction, and Oncor, a regulated electric distribution and transmission business.
In 2008 we covered our largest wholesale bakery in Berkeley with photovoltaic panels in order to generate much of our own electricity.
Of the eighteen sub-sectors, eleven reported growth in the following order: finance & insurance; agriculture; health care & social assistance; wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation & warehousing; public administration; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply; educational services; accommodation & food services and arts, entertainment & recreation.
Of the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors thirteen of them reported growth in December in the following order: agriculture; health care & social assistance; information & communication; finance & insurance; management of companies; retail trade; accommodation & food services; transportation & warehousing; arts, entertainment & recreation; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply; wholesale trade; construction and real estate, rental & leasinOf the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors thirteen of them reported growth in December in the following order: agriculture; health care & social assistance; information & communication; finance & insurance; management of companies; retail trade; accommodation & food services; transportation & warehousing; arts, entertainment & recreation; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply; wholesale trade; construction and real estate, rental & leasinof them reported growth in December in the following order: agriculture; health care & social assistance; information & communication; finance & insurance; management of companies; retail trade; accommodation & food services; transportation & warehousing; arts, entertainment & recreation; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply; wholesale trade; construction and real estate, rental & leasinof companies; retail trade; accommodation & food services; transportation & warehousing; arts, entertainment & recreation; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply; wholesale trade; construction and real estate, rental & leasing.
Of the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors, twelve grew in the month of December in the following order: agriculture; health care & social assistance; finance & insurance; public administration; transportation & warehousing; wholesale trade; retail trade; accommodation & food services; information & communication; arts, entertainment & recreation; educational services and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplOf the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors, twelve grew in the month of December in the following order: agriculture; health care & social assistance; finance & insurance; public administration; transportation & warehousing; wholesale trade; retail trade; accommodation & food services; information & communication; arts, entertainment & recreation; educational services and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplof December in the following order: agriculture; health care & social assistance; finance & insurance; public administration; transportation & warehousing; wholesale trade; retail trade; accommodation & food services; information & communication; arts, entertainment & recreation; educational services and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supply.
Of the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors, fourteen recorded decline in May 2016 in the following order: professional, scientific, & technical services; public administration; management of companies; construction; real estate, rental & leasing; information & communication; utilities; finance & insurance; agriculture; wholesale trade; accommodation & food services; health care & social assistance; repair, maintenance / washing of motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplOf the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors, fourteen recorded decline in May 2016 in the following order: professional, scientific, & technical services; public administration; management of companies; construction; real estate, rental & leasing; information & communication; utilities; finance & insurance; agriculture; wholesale trade; accommodation & food services; health care & social assistance; repair, maintenance / washing of motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplof companies; construction; real estate, rental & leasing; information & communication; utilities; finance & insurance; agriculture; wholesale trade; accommodation & food services; health care & social assistance; repair, maintenance / washing of motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplof motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supply.
The wholesale price of electricity is down 50 % and not expected to rise anytime soon.
He added that Entergy wants to get out of the «merchant» power industry, which sells electricity on the wholesale market.
The cancellation of the 100.5 - megawatt Noble Allegany wind park was blamed on low wholesale electricity prices, which have made it more difficult to justify the project's costs at a time when the economy is weak and financing remains tight.
A study by the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance found that New York's wholesale electricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same tElectricity Alliance found that New York's wholesale electricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same telectricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same time period.
«New York households pay some of the highest electric bills in the nation, and the wholesale electricity market overseen by NYISO has a major impact on prices,» said Beth Finkel, state director for AARP in New York state.
Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.
When Congress put the Federal Power Commission in charge of all wholesale interstate electricity sales in 1935, Texas opted out and stayed out.
This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.
It also provides transmission services to third parties as well as the generation and sale of electricity into the wholesale market.
The Transmission & Distribution Utilities segment engages in the business of transmission and distribution of electricity for sale to retail and wholesale customers through assets owned and operated by its subsidiaries.
Avista Utilities also engages in wholesale purchases and sales of electricity and natural gas.
This is especially true for solar PV, where in Germany and Spain FIT payments have caused serious energy policy turmoil, and in the US, where net metering policies have caused public utility backlash against PV deployment in states like Arizona and California (a result of utilities being forced to pay 15 - 30ckWh for PV electricity instead of purchasing on the wholesale markets for 4 - 6c / kWh).
«Since August, wholesale power prices in South Australia have been consistently cheaper than Victoria, and in September and October, SA had the cheapest wholesale prices of mainland states in the National Electricity Market,» he said.
The growth of solar and wind power has highlighted the issue of negative pricing on the wholesale markets, where in some instances the availability of wind or solar power depresses prices to the point where wholesalers pay their utility customers to take the electricity off their hands.
Release of the wholesale pricing data in South Australia — and data showing South Australia still has the highest prices in the National Electricity Market — prompted state opposition energy spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan to savage a claim by Mr Weatherill that his $ 550 million «self - sufficient» energy plan was producing the lowest power prices in the national market.
In 2013, 39 percent of the town's electricity came from a category it calls «unspecified power» — essentially electricity that Palo Alto buys in the wholesale market.
A revenue gap analysis conducted by the national laboratory for 79 of 99 operational reactors that are in a region where public wholesale electricity market prices are available suggests that 63 units would have lost money in 2016.
A $ 40 / t tax would increase the wholesale and retail prices of fossil fuelled electricity by about 4 cents per kWh.
Bulk power transactions: The wholesale sale, purchase, and interchange of electricity among electric utilities.
The Supreme Court found that Order 745 was built upon Order 719, which required that wholesale market operators receive demand response bids from aggregators of electricity consumers except when state regulation bars such participation.
Wholesale electricity prices reflect the operational stress of meeting these periodic increases in demand.
Henry Yoshimura is the Director of Demand Resource Strategy for ISO New England where he is responsible for integrating distributed energy resources (energy efficiency, demand response, distributed generation) into the New England wholesale electricity market.
«The case for preserving an electric utility's monopoly over electricity generation died with federally induced wholesale competition in the late 1970s and with the recent advent of customer - owned and cost - effective rooftop solar,» said John Farrell, director of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self - Reliance.
The only way to get lower wholesale electricity prices is to expand renewables and let the owners of coal - fired power station take a corresponding hit to their profits.
Wholesale power market: The purchase and sale of electricity from generators to resellers (who sell to retail customers), along with the ancillary services needed to maintain reliability and power quality at the transmission level.
«I once did a series of calculations looking at the capital costs of various turbines and the income they would get from the electricity produced if they were paid the wholesale price received by power stations.
These softening impacts on customer bills from renewables come because they force down the wholesale of electricity, and incumbent generators do not like that.
In Queensland, over the first five months of this year, electricity consumers paid the highest wholesale prices in the NEM, 30 per cent above the average.
Wholesale electricity prices this week in Queensland have fallen below $ 30 / MWh — see graph below — far below the levels of other states as mild weather and sunny condition reduced demand and generated a large amount of solar electricity.
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